Professor José Feijó and his team from the University of Maryland recently discovered that plant cells use proteins, known as glutamate receptor-like proteins (GLRs), to transmit signals to one another, just like animal cells.

Foldability is a useful characteristic in robotics for reaching into confined spaces. Origami-like designs, which promise efficient foldability, have previously had the difficulty of maintaining structural stiffness.

Professor Alon Gorodetsky and PhD student Chengyi Xu at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have created a novel soft material that can provide invisibility from infrared night vision and control temperature loss, inspired by similar properties of squid skin.

A research team from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) led by Sang-Young Lee has developed a battery that promises exceptional safety and flexibility.

While there is yet little understood about autoimmune diseases, a Yale University research team has managed to extend our insight a little further. Through experimentation with samples of mice, the team was able to demonstrate how the gut bacteria Enterococcus gallinarum could be translocated into other organs including the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes.

Despite some debates, it is generally accepted that the human hippocampus generates new neurons even in adulthood. Yet, research led by Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla and his team from University of California, San Francisco discovered evidence that neurogenesis in the human hippocampus drops drastically as age progresses.